Dina Sharipova
Assistant Professor 

Dr. Sharipova received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Indian University in 2013. Since 2013 she worked at KIMEP University in the Department of International Relations and Regional Studies. In 2016, Dr. Sharipova was appointed to the position of Research Director of the College of Social Sciences. Currently, Dina serves on the Board of the European Society for Central Asian Studies, an organization established in 1995 to promote research collaboration among scholars of Central Asia and Europe.

Dr. Sharipova’s research interests include nation and state-building, formal and informal institutions, identity politics, and social capital in Central Asia. Her recent publications include the book “State-building in Kazakhstan: Continuity and Transformation of Informal Institutions” published by Lexington Books in 2018. She also has a number of publications in scholarly journals such as Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Central Asian Survey,  Central Asian Affairs, Nationalities Paper, and others.